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Abbreviated
Curriculum Vitae
- 1920 - Born, New York:
Frank Twombly Hubbard
- 1942 - Harvard University, AB
- 1947 - Harvard University, AM
- 1947 - Apprenticed as Harpsichord Maker with Arnold Dolmetsch, Ltd.,
Haslemere, Surrey, England
- 1948 - Apprenticed as Harpsichord Maker with Hugh Gough, London
- 1949 - Founded with William Dowd, Hubbard & Dowd, Inc.
- 1957 - Fulbright Fellowship
(research, France)
- 1957 - American Philosophical Society Grant
- 1958 - Belgium American Educational Foundation CRB Fellowship
- 1959 - Founded Frank Hubbard Harpsichords, Inc.
- 1962 - Published Harpsichord Regulating and Repairing, Tuners
Supply Co.
- 1965 - Published Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making, Harvard
Univ. Press.
- 1967 - American Philosophical Society Grant
- 1967 - Invited to found a workshop in Paris for the restoration of
instruments in the Museum of the Conservatory. Also taught a course in the history of the
harpsichord in the Conservatory
- 1970 - Taught course at Harvard Summer School, History of the
Harpsichord
- 1972 - Taught course at Boston University, History of Musical
Instruments
- 1973 - St. Botolph Club (Boston) Arts Award
- 1973 - Founded with Lawrence C. Erdmann, Frank Hubbard Harpsichord Kits,
Inc.
- 1975 - Visiting Committee, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Department of
European Decorative Arts & Sculpture; also Boston University and Franklin Institute
projects
- 1976 - Scheduled to teach course at Harvard, The Harpsichord: Its Role
in Music, Society, Science, Technology and the Decorative Arts
Articles:
- The Galpin Society Journal
- Museum Notes, Rhode Island School of Design
- Journal of the American Recorder Society
- Harvard Dictionary of Music
- Groves Dictionary
Papers Read:
- American Musicological Society (2)
- Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts
- Cornell University, Department of Music
- Dartmouth College
- Boston University
- Tufts University
- Brandeis University
- University of Indiana
Restorations performed for the following institutions:
- Smithsonian Institution
- Musikhistorisches Museum, Copenhagen
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts (3)
- Paris Conservatory (4)
- Rhode Island School of Design (2)
- Yale University, Musical Instrument Collection
- Harvard University
- Wellesley College
- Vizcaya (Miami, FL)
- Cornell University
1976 Died, February 26, Wellesley, MA.
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